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Chet Baker

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Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. [1]

91 relations: All About Jazz, All the Fine Young Cannibals, AllMusic, Almost Blue (song), Amsterdam, Art Pepper, Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti, Bebop, Bix Beiderbecke, Black Hawk (nightclub), Bob Whitlock (musician), Bop City, Born to Be Blue (film), Brad Henry, Bruce Weber (photographer), Carson Smith, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker Sings, Chetty's Lullaby, Cocaine, Cool jazz, Daniel Petrie, Dave Gelly, David Wilcox (American musician), Dizzy Gillespie, DownBeat, El Camino College, Eliane Elias, Elio Petri, Elvis Costello, Embouchure, Epic Records, Ethan Hawke, Ezio Leoni, Forlì, Francy Boland, Frank Sinatra, Gerry Mulligan, Giuliano Montaldo, Giulio Questi, Harold Danko, Hein van de Geyn, Hell's Horizon, Howlers in the Dock, I Thought About You (Eliane Elias album), Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, Interview (magazine), Italy, James Dean, ..., Jazz, Jim Hall (musician), Joe Mondragon, John Engels, José Bénazéraf, Kathy Taylor, Larry Bunker, Let's Get Lost (1988 film), Lucio Fulci, Metronome magazine, Milpitas, California, My Funny Valentine, Nanni Loy, Nick Murphy (musician), Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma House of Representatives, Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, Pacific Jazz Records, Phil Markowitz, Philip Catherine, Presidio of San Francisco, Punch the Clock, RCA Records, Robert Wagner, Russ Freeman (pianist), Shelly Manne, Shipbuilding (song), Stan Getz, The Haig, The Thrill Is Gone, The Trident (restaurant), Tiffany Club, Tom Gries, United States Army, Van Morrison, Variety (magazine), Vido Musso, West Coast jazz, William Claxton (photographer), Yale, Oklahoma, (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You. Expand index (41 more) »

All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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All the Fine Young Cannibals

All the Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 American film directed by Michael Anderson, based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Almost Blue (song)

"Almost Blue" is a song recorded by English group Elvis Costello and the Attractions from their sixth studio album, Imperial Bedroom (1982).

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (also known as Fiasco in Milan or Hold-up à la milanaise) is a 1959 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer.

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Black Hawk (nightclub)

The Black Hawk was a San Francisco nightclub that featured live jazz performances during its period of operation from 1949 to 1963.

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Bob Whitlock (musician)

Bob Whitlock (January 21, 1931, Roosevelt, Utah - June 20, 2015, Long Beach, California) was an American jazz double-bassist.

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Bop City

Bop City (also known as Jimbo's Bop City) was a jazz club operated by John "Jimbo" Edwards in San Francisco from 1949 to 1965.

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Born to Be Blue (film)

Born to Be Blue is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed, produced and written by Robert Budreau.

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Brad Henry

Charles Bradford "Brad" Henry (born July 10, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who was the 26th Governor of Oklahoma.

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Bruce Weber (photographer)

Bruce Weber (born March 29, 1946) is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker.

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Carson Smith

Carson Raymond Smith (January 9, 1931, San Francisco – November 2, 1997, Las Vegas) was an American jazz double-bassist.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker Sings is the debut vocal album by jazz musician Chet Baker, released in 1954 by Pacific Jazz Records.

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Chetty's Lullaby

"Chetty's Lullaby" is a 1962 jazz song composed by Chet Baker.

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Cocaine

Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.

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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.

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Daniel Petrie

Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and film director.

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Dave Gelly

Dave Gelly MBE (born 28 January 1938) is a British jazz critic.

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David Wilcox (American musician)

David Patrick Wilcox (born March 9, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter guitarist.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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El Camino College

El Camino College (Elco or ECC) is a two-year public community college located in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County known as Alondra Park.

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Eliane Elias

Eliane Elias (born 19 March 1960 in São Paulo), BrowseBiography.com, 20 November 2011; retrieved 10 September 2014.

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Elio Petri

Elio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982) was an Italian political filmmaker.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Embouchure

Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director.

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Ezio Leoni

Ezio Leoni (Milan, July 17, 1927 - Capriate, February 22, 2015) is one of the pioneering forces behind the Italian music scene of the "anni d'oro" (golden years) of Italy's "musica leggera" (popular music).

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Forlì

Forlì (Furlè; Forum Livii) is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena.

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Francy Boland

François Boland (6 November 1929 – 12 August 2005) was a classically trained Belgian jazz composer and pianist.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Giuliano Montaldo

Giuliano Montaldo (born 22 February 1930 in Genoa) is an Italian film director.

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Giulio Questi

Giulio Questi (18 March 1924 – 3 December 2014) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Harold Danko

Harold Danko (born June 13, 1947 in Ohio) is an American jazz pianist.

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Hein van de Geyn

Hein Van de Geyn (born 18 July 1956, Schijndel) is a jazz bassist, composer and band leader from the Netherlands.

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Hell's Horizon

Hell's Horizon is a 1955 American war film directed by Tom Gries.

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Howlers in the Dock

Howlers in the Dock (Urlatori alla sbarra) is a 1960 Italian musicarello film directed (and co-written) by Lucio Fulci.

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I Thought About You (Eliane Elias album)

I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker is the twenty-second studio album by Brazilian jazz pianist and singer Eliane Elias.

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Inglewood Park Cemetery

Inglewood Park Cemetery is a cemetery at 720 East Florence Avenue in Inglewood, California, United States.

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Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.

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Interview (magazine)

Interview was an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jim Hall (musician)

James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.

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Joe Mondragon

Joe Mondragon (February 2, 1920 – July 1987) was an American jazz bassist.

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John Engels

John Engels (January 19, 1931 South Bend, Indiana - June 13, 2007 Vermont) was an American poet.

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José Bénazéraf

José Bénazéraf (January 8, 1922 – December 1, 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer.

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Kathy Taylor

Kathryn Louise Taylor (born September 29, 1955) was elected the 38th Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 4, 2006, in the city's largest voter turnout for a mayoral election.

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Larry Bunker

Lawrence Benjamin "Larry" Bunker (November 4, 1928 – March 8, 2005) was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist.

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Let's Get Lost (1988 film)

Let's Get Lost is a 1988 American documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber.

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Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci (17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Metronome magazine

Metronome Magazine (or Metronome) was a music magazine published from 1881 until 1961.

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Milpitas, California

Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County, California.

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My Funny Valentine

"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green.

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Nanni Loy

Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director.

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Nick Murphy (musician)

Nicholas James Murphy (born 23 June 1988), formerly known by his stage name Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter.

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Oklahoma Historical Society

The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma dedicated to promotion and preservation of Oklahoma's history and its people by collecting, interpreting, and disseminating knowledge and artifacts of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma House of Representatives

The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization that honors jazz, blues and gospel musicians in the state of Oklahoma.

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Pacific Jazz Records

Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz.

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Phil Markowitz

Phil Markowitz (born September 6, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is a jazz pianist and educator.

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Philip Catherine

Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.

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Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army military fort on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Punch the Clock

Punch the Clock is an album released in 1983 by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Robert Wagner

Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–70), Switch (1975–78), and Hart to Hart (1979–84).

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Russ Freeman (pianist)

Russell Donald Freeman (May 28, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois – June 27, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was a bebop and cool jazz pianist and composer.

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Shelly Manne

Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.

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Shipbuilding (song)

"Shipbuilding" is a song written by Elvis Costello (lyrics) and Clive Langer (music).

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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The Haig

The Haig was a jazz club located at 638 South Kenmore Avenue in Hollywood.

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The Thrill Is Gone

"The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951.

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The Trident (restaurant)

The Trident is a restaurant in Sausalito, California, originally opened in 1966 as a bar-restaurant-music venue by the Kingston Trio, and noted for its psychedelic murals dating to the 1960s, and its ties to the music counterculture of that era.

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Tiffany Club

Tiffany Club was a jazz club on 7th Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

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Tom Gries

Thomas Stephen "Tom" Gries (December 20, 1922 – January 3, 1977) was an American TV and film director, writer, and film producer.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vido Musso

Vido William Musso (January 17, 1913 – January 9, 1982) was an Italian-born American jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader, best-known for his many contributions to the big bands of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman.

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West Coast jazz

West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s.

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William Claxton (photographer)

William James Claxton (October 12, 1927 – October 11, 2008) was an American photographer and author.

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Yale, Oklahoma

Yale is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States.

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(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You

(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You is an album by jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Baker

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